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SAND BAND FOR WHEEL HUBS. No. 354,181. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcE.

CHARLES O. CHAPLIN, OF HARTLAND CORNERS, NEW YORK.

SAND-BAND FOR WHEEL-HUBS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,181, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed October 8, 1886. Serial No. 215,694. (No model.)

Bands for WVheeLHubs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my invention, and is a vertical longitudinal section of thesame. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sand-band. Fig. 3 is a perspec tive view ofa portion of the axle, showing the scraper L.

My invention relates to sandbands for vehiole-hubs, and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a wheel-hub of the ordinary construction, secured on the arm or journal 13, in the usual manner, by a nut.

O designates the inner hubband, and D the outer hub-band, both bands being of the construction ordinarily used.

E designates the saud'band, which is made of metal castin one piece to form an open cap, and is secured to the inner end of the wheelhub by screws F, or otherwise. The opening I in the sand-band is surrounded by an annular flange, K, which flange, when the wheelhub is in place upon the arm of theaxle, projects under a scraper, L, on the wooden portion of the axle, which scraper extends over the annular collar K, and serves to clear it of the collar M at the inner end of the arm of the axle, so that thesand is prevented from entering the oil-chamber ordinarily; but if, by

accident or from wear of the parts, any sand should be admitted, it will seek the bottom of the oil-chamber, and will in no case reach the arm or spindle of the axle. 7 the open cap is beveled on its inner periphery outwardly to form a knife-edge 011 said flange P, or so nearly a knife-edge as to permit the edge of the flange P to be driven into the end of the hub far enough to form an oil-tight joint without injury to the material of the hub.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The sand-band herein described, formed from a single piece of metal, and consisting, essentially, of the hand E, having the transverse apertures to receive fastening-screws, and the central apertures, I, surrounded by the annular flange K, and the flange P, of greater diameter than the flange K, and having the knife-edge adapted to be driven into a hub, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the axle having the collar M and scraper L, as described, and the sand-band E, having the central aperture, I, surrounded by the flange K, the flange P, having the cutting-edge to be driven into the hub, and the screws passing through apertures in the band and into the hub, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. OHAPLIN. \Vitnesses:

Tnno. MUNonN, PHILIP O. MAsr.

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